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... Johnson's Dictionary . It was upon literature , the most seductive , the most deceiving , the most dangerous of professions , that Burke , like so many hun- dreds of smaller men before and since , now threw himself for a livelihood . Of ...
... Johnson's Dictionary . It was upon literature , the most seductive , the most deceiving , the most dangerous of professions , that Burke , like so many hun- dreds of smaller men before and since , now threw himself for a livelihood . Of ...
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... given to the world by David Mallet , Dr. Johnson's beggarly Scotchman , to whom Bolingbroke had left half - a - crown in his will , for firing off a blunderbuss which he was afraid to fire off himself . The 12 [ CHAP . BURKE .
... given to the world by David Mallet , Dr. Johnson's beggarly Scotchman , to whom Bolingbroke had left half - a - crown in his will , for firing off a blunderbuss which he was afraid to fire off himself . The 12 [ CHAP . BURKE .
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... Johnson whether an im- prudent publication by a certain friend of his at an early period of his life , would be likely to hurt him ? " No , sir , " replied the sage ; " not much ; it might perhaps be mentioned at an election . " It is ...
... Johnson whether an im- prudent publication by a certain friend of his at an early period of his life , would be likely to hurt him ? " No , sir , " replied the sage ; " not much ; it might perhaps be mentioned at an election . " It is ...
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... therefore , Burke was drawn to the deepest of all the currents in the thought of the eighteenth century . Johnson and Goldsmith continued the traditions of social and polite literature which had been 16 [ CHAP . BURKE.
... therefore , Burke was drawn to the deepest of all the currents in the thought of the eighteenth century . Johnson and Goldsmith continued the traditions of social and polite literature which had been 16 [ CHAP . BURKE.
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... Johnson did conversational battle with all comers . We shall , in a later chapter , have something to say on Burke's friendships with the followers of his first profes- sion , and on the active sympathy with which he helped those who ...
... Johnson did conversational battle with all comers . We shall , in a later chapter , have something to say on Burke's friendships with the followers of his first profes- sion , and on the active sympathy with which he helped those who ...
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Стр. 194 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Стр. 100 - Animated with all the avarice of age and all the impetuosity of youth, they roll in one after another, wave after wave, and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting.
Стр. 71 - But authoritative instructions; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote, and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience, — these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution.
Стр. 71 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.
Стр. 100 - Here the manufacturer and husbandman will bless the just and punctual hand that in India has torn the cloth from the loom, or wrested the scanty portion of rice and salt from the peasant of Bengal, or wrung from him the very opium in which he forgot his oppressions and his oppressor.
Стр. 107 - it is not so ; and I must be in a wretched state indeed when your company would not be a delight to me.' Mr. Burke, in a tremulous voice, expressive of being very tenderly affected, replied. ' My dear Sir, you have always been too good to me.
Стр. 8 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalise the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Стр. 71 - If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination...